Polyxena
Greek · scion · trojan war · Recorded classification
Scion — youngest daughter of Priam and Hecuba; in post-Homeric legend beloved of Achilles and connected with his death-ambush. After Troy fell she was sacrificed by Neoptolemus on Achilles' tomb to lay the hero's shade, going to her death with a courage that becomes the moral centre of Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women.
Parentage
Domains
- sacrificial victimhood
Powers
- bares her throat to the sacrificial blade and dies as a free woman with heroic composure
Relations
- sibling: HectorApollod. 3.12.5; Eur. Hec. (primary)
- sibling: CassandraEur. Hec.; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- sibling: ParisWires to the existing figure greek_paris — reciprocal sibling needed on greek_paris.Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- sibling: Polydorus